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6. McDonald

Daylight

5. Frawley

4. Grimes

3. Warnock

2. Jamar

1. McKenzie

Finally!

JMAC and Frawley a clear 1 and 2 for mine.

Grimes is a strange one. He is a beautiful disposer of the ball except for about every fourth or fifth disposal, which is a completely shocking clanger. Still love him though.

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Posted (edited)

6 - McDonald

5 - Warnock

4 - McKenzie

3 - Jamar

2 - Green

1 - Frawley

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6. Mcdonald (by a country mile)

5. Grimes

4. Frawley

3. Jamar

2. Warnock

1. McKenzie

I'll second these votes, they are spot on for me.

There is no way Scully should get votes, his disposal was terrible yesterday.

WOG is a tie between PJ and Sylvia.

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Pull your finger out award: Three way tie: Sylvia - Bate - Davey

What?!?!

Sylvia of course. No problems there.

But Davey copped a knock to the head, spent a while off the ground trying to recover, and didn't seem fully right when he did come back on.

And Bate hurt his ankle, probably had an injection to fix it up, then came back on and gave us an option despite not being fit. He also created a goal by running back to the goalsquare when we had no one forward of a stoppage 30 metres out from goal. He was better than a lot of our players despite being hampered by injury. Bad call HT, bad call.

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6. McDonald - brilliant yet again

5. Grimes - not helped by the midfield

4. Jamar - 3 excellent quarters with no backup

3. Frawley - kept them quieter than they should have been

2. McKenzie - never gave up

1. Warnock - to a lesser extent than Frawley

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I felt we were "off" as soon as Josh Kennedy was not physically challenged by anyone before the first bounce. Then he kicked 2 in a row and all I could hear was the crickets chirping in the back of the stand and observe the pigeons settling in for a relaxing afternnon on our half back line.

A disturbing lack of intensity.

But here are my votes:

6 - Junior....love his endeavour

5 - Jamar, took on 2 good ruckman and held his own.

4 - Jordie McKenzie

3 - Matty Warnock

2- Jack Grimes

1 - James Frawley

Hope to see Morton, Aussie, Jetta and Martin back next week


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For mine, Watts looked out of place - with an odd, hulking body posture (somewhat reminiscent of Kepler Bradley? god help us). Will take some years.

The clear leader in the award for most ridiculous comment of the year. I thought it was only a 5/10 game from Jack, but our benchmark for tall forwards (except for Bate) is pretty low. If Newton or Martin ever played that well as a forward, it would be a pleasant surprise.

Votes:

6. Junior

5. Grimes

4. McKenzie

...

The rest don't matter.

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Congratulations to Junior - oldest man at the club and he's hit the lead in the Demonland Player of the Year!

59.753 James McDonald

58.269 Mark Jamar

56.401 Jack Grimes

55.548 James Frawley

50.125 Brent Moloney

33.071 Tom Scully

29.607 Brad Green

29.463 Jack Trengove

26.292 Colin Sylvia

22.147 Matthew Bate

20.656 Ricky Petterd

19.567 Jordie McKenzie

17.419 Aaron Davey

15.431 Nathan Jones

15.283 Matthew Warnock

12.512 Jamie Bennell

10.760 Cameron Bruce

8.211 Rohan Bail

7.921 Lynden Dunn

5.250 Clint Bartram

2.453 Jack Watts

1.705 Joel Macdonald

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What?!?!

Sylvia of course. No problems there.

But Davey copped a knock to the head, spent a while off the ground trying to recover, and didn't seem fully right when he did come back on.

And Bate hurt his ankle, probably had an injection to fix it up, then came back on and gave us an option despite not being fit. He also created a goal by running back to the goalsquare when we had no one forward of a stoppage 30 metres out from goal. He was better than a lot of our players despite being hampered by injury. Bad call HT, bad call.

I'm not here to blow sunshine up your titan_uranus, these three were shining beacons last season. Knock to the head, tap to the ankle, won't change my mind. They were very average in my book. How many times did you see Bate get caught ? He cannot kick with his right foot what-so-ever. Kicking for goal was as bad as Sylvia's, which was almost non existent. And Davey needs to be much more prominent than he has been so far this season.

I haven't missed.

PS. I am asking them to pull their finger out, in case you missed.

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The clear leader in the award for most ridiculous comment of the year. ....

How so. I arrived towards the end of the 2nd quarter. In the remaining time, he was a fair copy of Newton. He led to the wrong areas, had a turning circle the size of the titanic, was slow (whoever was on him had no trouble covering him), didn't get near to laying a tackle and nearly killed himself when he stuffed up a half chance of taking a mark from a kick into space (nearly slid head-first into the behind post).

But I must again make comment on his appearance. His footy gear didn't fit him (looked odd) and he has a weird hunched way of carrying his shoulders. I hope like hell they are not looking to turning him into the Hulk.

As I said, he will take time. Fingers crossed. :wub:

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How so. I arrived towards the end of the 2nd quarter. In the remaining time, he was a fair copy of Newton. He led to the wrong areas, had a turning circle the size of the titanic, was slow (whoever was on him had no trouble covering him), didn't get near to laying a tackle and nearly killed himself when he stuffed up a half chance of taking a mark from a kick into space (nearly slid head-first into the behind post).

But I must again make comment on his appearance. His footy gear didn't fit him (looked odd) and he has a weird hunched way of carrying his shoulders. I hope like hell they are not looking to turning him into the Hulk.

As I said, he will take time. Fingers crossed. :wub:

Could be wrong, but he looked to have a GPS inserted (upper back).

LOL @ "footy gear didn't fit him" .

You need to get a job on the red carpet at the Logies. Fashion Police extraordinaire.

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His footy gear didn't fit him (looked odd) and he has a weird hunched way of carrying his shoulders.

Boy the kid really can't win can he :rolleyes: ?!!!

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6. Jack Watts

5. James McDonald

4. Jack Grimes

3. James Frawley

2. Jared Rivers

1. Jordie McKenzie

Got to number two and realised I picked players starting with J, so I decided to keep going :D

WATTS it like to be the ODD one out

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6. McDonald - brilliant yet again

5. Grimes - not helped by the midfield

4. Jamar - 3 excellent quarters with no backup

3. Frawley - kept them quieter than they should have been

2. McKenzie - never gave up

1. Warnock - to a lesser extent than Frawley

That about covers it, so same for me. Not surprising that it's the backs getting all the votes, the game was played in their forward line.

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How so. I arrived towards the end of the 2nd quarter. In the remaining time, he was a fair copy of Newton. He led to the wrong areas, had a turning circle the size of the titanic, was slow (whoever was on him had no trouble covering him), didn't get near to laying a tackle and nearly killed himself when he stuffed up a half chance of taking a mark from a kick into space (nearly slid head-first into the behind post).

But I must again make comment on his appearance. His footy gear didn't fit him (looked odd) and he has a weird hunched way of carrying his shoulders. I hope like hell they are not looking to turning him into the Hulk.

And just when you thought the Jack Watts threads couldn't get more ridiculous, along comes someone to spoil your day.

Posted

I'm not here to blow sunshine up your titan_uranus, these three were shining beacons last season. Knock to the head, tap to the ankle, won't change my mind. They were very average in my book. How many times did you see Bate get caught ? He cannot kick with his right foot what-so-ever. Kicking for goal was as bad as Sylvia's, which was almost non existent. And Davey needs to be much more prominent than he has been so far this season.

I haven't missed.

PS. I am asking them to pull their finger out, in case you missed.

And I said you were off the mark. Telling Bate to pull his finger out when he's clearly our hardest working forward, and who was struggling with a sore ankle, is just out of line (but yes, he could learn to kick on his right). And whilst Davey wasn't great, he may well have been affected by a possibly broken nose.


Posted

6. Jack Watts

.......

Got to number two and realised I picked players starting with J, so I decided to keep going :D

Ridiculous.

Posted

Ridiculous.

I know he wasn't the best, but I was really glad that he played a solid game even though it was talked up a bit. And the way he took it to Schofield really impressed me. I'll be less biased next week, but I thought 'easily top six' and he was the one that caught my eye this week.

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And just when you thought the Jack Watts threads couldn't get more ridiculous, along comes someone to spoil your day.

Why? Were you at the game? To me he looked like a bogan running around. Read Kepler Bradley. Don't forget, we were playing the eagles; most other teams would have flogged us by 20 goals.

BUT, it his his 4th game. Give him 4+yrs he might be a josh kennedy; give him 6+yrs, he might be a Rewoldt.

Fingers crossed. :wub:

(And for what is worth, except when Bruce was giving Natanui jumping/marking practice, I thought Natanui very ordinary. But what do I know? :wub: )

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WATTS it like to be the ODD one out

I don't mind. He had a good game considering he must've been under pressure playing with Nic Nat and our top two picks from last year who have already showed some great performances. He definitely played better than the Scullgove twins...and Nic Nat just had those two speckies, he stood around for the rest of the game.

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6. Junior Mac - how anyone could see different, then I wasn't there!! What a legend!

5. Jack Grimes - a little loose on disposal but hard to fault otherwise

4. James Frawley - keeps getting better and better Chip!

3. Jordie McKenzie - I reckon he was stiff not to get a Rising Star Nom.....I guess only winning sides get this?

2. Jared Rivers - Beaten a couple of times early, maybe fortunate that Kennedy was off a bit but showed his value being the loose man...reads the play so well and should only be used for this purpose

1. Jack Watts - hard to pick this week due to many poor performances but reckon Jack deserves a vote for his efforts in a forward line that saw horrible movement from up field, couple of great contested marks, couple of nice efforts at the ankles...the potential is there, time is on this 'boys' side.

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